Besides cuts in veteran's benefits and paying for hospital meals, this is another indication of how the US ruling class views the soldiers who fight for their profits and power overseas. They are disposable. Also, it is an indication of the effects of depleted uranium.

Despite U.S. insistence on publicly focusing the scope of Iraq's guerrilla movement on Saddam Hussein loyalists and foreign militants, organized Iraqi civilians also participate in the violent resistance to the U.S.-led occupation

The shattered eyes of Palestine are staring at us. They are craving for unity, for justice, for truth, for humanity. Those are the eyes of generations of children who have been deprived of the happiness of their age.

Senator Andrew Bartlett leader of the Australian Democrats made history yesterday, October 16 2003 as he spoke in the Senate to the first motion of condolence for the 353 who died in the SIEV X tragedy.